That was exactly the point I was trying to reconcile with myself. He has all the attributes of a good Robin, but he could never be a Robin because he's had the hammered independence into him. Now whether that was Gotham without Batman, his parents divorce or something he learned as Batman (or possibly even something he learned as an older brother), I don't know, but it marks him as seperate
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oh god, this is long.lipsofpoisonMarch 6 2009, 02:32:31 UTC
First and foremost, I love getting essays for comments so never warn for it ;D Also, karanguni has one of my favourite takes on Terry and his dynamic within the family. I've read pretty much everything of her Terry and some of it made it to my personal canon (Bruce doing physical training while he was in a position to in Out of the Past) and I am hugely in awe of the characterisation
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Like I said, I was blurring majorly because when I think of the Robins, I always think of them as DC rather than DCAU, but personally, I just want BftC to take note that Batman, Batgirl, Nightwing and Robin got destroyed in DCAU because they didn't stick together and pull together as a family. DCAU is an abject lesson: they must rely on eachother or be doomed to the same fate. I do not want to see that happen.
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